In April, Chang'an was still vigorously preaching that the Xiongnu were about to collapse due to the disaster, gloating over the northern neighbors, and the "Xiongnu collapse theory" was noisy, and the people and the government were full of interest, and there was a great tendency to go north to invade the Huns in one fell swoop this year.

And in May, when the news of the Kanto earthquake came, the Chang'an government and the opposition were silent for a while, and they were all stunned.

This disaster, which can be called the "Renyin earthquake", affected 49 counties east of Henan, killing more than 6,000 people, and the main casualties were concentrated in Dongwu City, Langya County, and the economic losses of the collapse of civilian houses were incalculable.

You say it's a coincidence, the Xiaowu Temple just erected last year is also forty-nine counties, although the regions do not completely coincide, but this number is too imaginative.

What's worse is that the Xiaowu Temple, which had just invested heavily in Beihai and Langxie last year, collapsed in the earthquake!

The major affairs of the country are only worship and Rong. And the ancestral temple, is the core of various sacrificial ceremonies, the temple fell, is a major political event, the emperor Liu Xun learned, then dressed in plain clothes, avoid the main hall for five days.

But above the court, a pot throwing competition was immediately launched.

After learning that the two temples in the Kanto earthquake were destroyed, the prime minister and Changshui Hou Tian Guangming took the lead in attacking, and Shangshu said: "The mountains and tombs are exhausted, the valleys do not flow, the grains are not planted, and the grass and trees are not luxuriant, so the responsibility is commonplace!" ”

The truth is such a truth, but the problem is that the Han does not have such an official!

Tian Guangming also knew this, so he gave an example: "When Xiaozhao was young, Taichang Jiangde sat in the temple of Emperor Xiaowen and drank at night to avoid fire. ”

Zhou Shi's Sikong was in charge of etiquette, morality, sacrifices, etc., which happened to coincide with Taichang, what he meant was that today's Taichang, Puhou Suchang should be responsible for this matter.

Tian Guangming very much hopes that Su Chang can take over this cauldron, because after all, Su Chang is still his old subordinate.

In the later years of Xiaowu, there were two million displaced people in the eastern part of the country, and the place was turbulent, Tian Guangming took the throne by means of a cool official, and was appointed as the Taishou of Huaiyang County, which coincided with the rebellion of Sun Yong, the father of Huaiyang City, and Hu Qian, the doorman, and so on, pretending to be the embroidered messenger of the imperial court to supervise the arrest of thieves, and wanted to launch a mutiny to kill Tian Guangming.

Fortunately, Tian Guangming found out and killed the person who caused the rebellion, but the mastermind Gongsun Yong escaped and ran to the nearby Yu County, where the county stables Jiang De and Wei Shi Suchang arrested the person together.

Because this was an unprecedented case of official rebellion, Jiang De and Su Chang, who contributed to the Han military forces, were made marquis, but Tian Guangming did not get mixed up with the marquis, but was only promoted to Dahonglu and grasped the real power, so Jiang De and Su Chang were all attached to him.

Now that such a major event has happened, Tian Guangming is unwilling to step down, so he hopes that Su Chang can take the initiative to stand up and share the responsibility.

Su Chang may have remembered that his friend Jiang De was abolished due to the fire of Xiaowen, and felt that this matter had nothing to do with him, so he was lucky, so he ignored the friendship of the old master, and bit Tian Guangming back, and said:

"The prime minister, the son of heaven, the yin and yang, and the four o'clock; It is appropriate for all things to be done; Outside the town to appease the princes of Siyi; The relatives are attached to the people, so that the doctors can do their jobs! ”

So if the yin and yang are out of tune, and the four seasons are not smooth, do you, as the prime minister of the hundred officials, have to bear a little responsibility?

The sense of heaven and man has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and if such a big thing happens, the imperial court will definitely hold the ministers accountable, and the first of them is the three dukes.

Among the three dukes, no one dared to criticize General Sima for the time being, and Du Yannian, the imperial historian, was at the end, and the sky fell down and Tian Guangming became the target of everyone.

What made Tian Guangming even more desperate was that the general didn't seem to plan to protect him this time, and left Tian Guangming and Su Chang together with each other.

What made Tian Guangming tremble was that his concubine, the widow of the commander of the surrendered city who had brought her son to join him, said that she had received a gift from the General's Mansion in the morning - a cooking utensil "Ren's Pot", which had been very popular in Chang'an in recent years.

"The pot is over, the general wants me to take the initiative."

And if he didn't comply, just exposing the adultery with the widow would be enough for Tian Guangming to ruin his reputation, and when the time came, it would ruin more than just his political career.

Tian Guangming sighed, he had never been conscientious since he had defected to the general for almost 20 years, but now he was abandoned like an old boot, and he couldn't help but think of his friend Tian Yannian who was forced to kill himself because of a mere 30 million yuan.

"Why did I encounter this earthquake?"

He could only write his resignation with tears in his eyes: "Guangming is incompetent, fortunately he has to be prepared for the assistant, he is not in his position, he can't preach and educate, Yin and Yang are not in harmony, and the disaster is not stopped, and Chen Chen is to blame ......"

After all, Prime Minister Tian still carried everything alone, the prime minister is gone, the throne is only afraid that it will not be guaranteed, and the rest of his life will be a rich man at most, just a book, Tian Guangming only looked up angrily and said:

"General, you're too ruthless!"

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At the beginning of May, the day after the news of the earthquake came, Tian Guangming quickly took over his resignation, but public opinion did not end because of this, and a dark tide surged among the scholars in Chang'an City.

Zuo Cao Yang Yun, who often excuses himself not to go to work, knows this wave best.

Since Yang Yun ended his duties as a military commander, he kept filial piety for his father for a few months, and then scattered the hundreds of gold left by Yang Chang and gave them to his clansmen, while he supported his mother and wrote at home.

First of all, the "Taishi Gongshu" that has not been leaked for 20 years, because the Son of Heaven likes this book, he can finally see the light of day again, Yang Yun's initiative is to sort it out and publish it, and often enter the palace to see him. It's just that the emperor still can't get along with him, and when there is no Xi'an Marquis and Zhang Chang present, Yang Yun will even quarrel with the emperor, and often break up unhappily.

In addition, Yang Yun is also continuing to write the "Taishi Gongshu", he wants to use the slightly rough "Dawan Liebiography" as the basis, and write a "Western Regions Biography" to include the fifty countries, describing their geography and customs. At the same time, at the request of Ren Hongzhi, he wrote a "Western Expedition", recording the thousands of miles of expeditions of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry in the first year of Yuan Ting.

On weekdays, Yang Yun personally went to the fields to work, and when he was old, he was full of lambs, and he worked by himself. He is Qin Sheng, his wife is Zhao Nu, the two of them are good at drumming, there are several slaves and singers, his ears are hot after drinking, he looks up to the sky, he is happy, and he behaves like a madman.

On this day, his friend Sun Huizong hurriedly came to visit and handed a hand-copied slip to Yang Yun, who couldn't help but laugh dumbly after reading it.

"This group of Confucians, but they have learned the rest of the things I played with Xi'an Hou."

Although during the Yuan Ting period, hundreds of virtuous literature and Tai students were knocked on the pot and exiled to the Western Regions, but it could not prevent the new Confucian students from entering Chang'an in batches, mainly Qilu people, although they no longer dared to openly oppose the general's government, but private comments were indispensable.

These people are knowledgeable, educated, not afraid of risks, not afraid of high-ranking officials, they think they represent the interests of Qilu, Kanto and even the people of the world, so they stir up their reputation in Chang'an, ask each other questions, and call themselves "Qingliu".

Huan Kuan and others were regarded as martyrs who were not afraid of the strong, and virtuous writers were called "Yuan Ting Sixty Gentlemen", and these "clear stream" communication methods were precisely used by Ren Hong and Yang Yun when they disseminated the Taishi Gongshu, and passed the Jianmu articles in the circle of scholars, so as to achieve the effect of spreading ten to one hundred and expanding public opinion.

And today's article is simply a clear stream bombarding the rulers!

In this article, we recount the various disasters since Xiaozhao, such as last year's drought and locust plague.

"Famine, drought also, its drought clouds do not rain, change and red, so excepted. The division is outdated, and it is said to be wide, and its xerophytes! ”

According to the theory of the doctrine of calamity, drought and locust plague are related to war, and many examples are given, such as the locust in the summer of the sixth year of Emperor Wu Yuanguang. The corresponding is the five generals and 300,000 Fumayi, who want to attack Shan Yu. And in the autumn of the fifth year of Yuan Ding, there were locusts again. At the age of the year, the four generals conquered South Vietnam and Southwest Yi, and opened more than ten counties.

In the autumn of the sixth year of Yuan Feng, locusts again. First, the two generals conquered Korea and opened three counties.

In the summer of the first year of Taichu, locusts flocked to Dunhuang from the east; In the autumn of the third year, the locusts returned. In the first year, the second division general conquered Dawan, and the world served him for many years.

Anyway, the war will be drought, and the expansion of the territory will definitely encounter locust plagues, and last year's drought locusts were obviously related to Ren Hong's war with the Xiongnu Shan Yu in Beiting.

As for what this earthquake portends, the article is even more meaningful.

"Zhou Shixian Bo Yangfu said, the yang is subdued and cannot come out, and the yin is forced but cannot rise, so there is an earthquake. Today's real earthquake in Kanto is the loss of the yang and the filling of the yin. ”

"Yi Chuan" said: Although the ministers are right, they will be shaken, and their earthquakes will be waves in the water, shake in the wood, and fall in the house!"

At the end, he said: "The two hundred and forty-second year of the "Spring and Autumn" era is a disaster, and it is regarded as the king of eternity. Since the opening of the Western Regions in the time of Yuan Feng and the use of soldiers by the Huns, the sun and the moon have been blinded, the stars have gone retrograde, landslides and springs have surged, earthquakes and stone falls, summer frost and winter thunder, spring and autumn glory, and the disasters recorded in "Spring and Autumn" are all prepared! ”

I just had to learn the original virtuous literature and shout "Huo Guang stepped down, and the great government was returned".

Yang Yun put down the article in his hand, he could even guess which people wrote this one, after all, since Dong Zhongshu, "Yi", "Spring and Autumn", and "Shangshu Hongfan" together constitute the three pillars of the "Way of Heaven and Man".

Sun Huizong was a little worried: "This article is clearly referring to the general's dictatorship that leads to disasters." ”

"Yes, these Confucians of Qilu really don't learn the lessons of their predecessors at all, and after saying that they are not allowed to enter the autumn, the Western Regions Protectorate will accept a large number of Confucian students again." Yang Yun shook his head, the general has not suppressed the Confucian scholars in the past two years, but if this overt and secret irony is stabbed, I am afraid it will stimulate the Huo family.

It can also be understood that the Qingzhou Thorn History Department suffered the most in this earthquake, and the hometown was affected, and the Confucian scholars were naturally indignant and had to ask for an explanation.

But when Sun Huizong proposed that Yang Yun and Ren Hong had refuted the theory of disaster and difference, and now whether to write an article to refute it, Yang Yun yawned:

"What's the hurry, let's see!"

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On the fourth day of the earthquake, a servant named "Yan Yannian" quoted this article on the third day and openly impeached General Sima, believing that he should be responsible for the drought, locusts and the earthquake in Kanto!

Yan Yannian is known for being stubborn and not afraid of power, when Huo Guang just abolished Liu He, this person went to the court to impeach the general, saying that he "abolished the lord without permission, no one is courteous, and he is not Tao", Huo Guang did not deal with this person, only let him sit on the cold bench.

Today, Yan Yannian fired again: "Sima is the main sky, Sikong is the main earth, and Situ is the master." The disaster is still serious, the sun and the moon have no light, the landslide and the river are broken, and the five stars are lost, which is the bad of the humerus and the shares. ”

Yan Yannian also knew that this time was different, and he was afraid that he would be treated as a "gossip to confuse the public" after he handed it over, so he handed it to him with his front foot, and escaped from the city with his back foot.

Although Ting Wei ordered the confiscation of articles and rumors from the people, and the arrest of those who actively publicized the matter, dozens of people were imprisoned in the prison. But public opinion has risen, and even the nine cities of Chang'an are also discussing, feeling that there have been too many disasters over the years, perhaps because the general has not returned to the Son of Heaven for a long time.

This is a major crisis that Huo Guang has never encountered in the eighteen years of his rule, and it is even more difficult than when he abolished the emperor. He was bent on solving the Xiongnu problem during his reign, and it was impossible for him to blame himself for the old man, but he was also disturbed by public opinion, and even began to lose his hair in the past few days, and the white head was getting shorter and shorter.

From Shangshutai to the two mansions, and then to the hundred officials of Jiuqing, they are all very embarrassed, they don't know how to deal with this matter, the general himself is also living in a simple place, and the public opinion outside is becoming more and more turbulent, this is an emotion that has been suppressed for several years, although Huo Guang ordered the dismissal of Taichang Suchang, but it could not calm the anger of the people at all.

At this time, on the fourth day of the news of the earthquake, an edict was held by Zhonghuangmen Honggong and sent from the greenhouse hall to Shangshutai.

Du Yannian, the Marquis of Jianping, who served as the acting prime minister, received the edict, and after taking a look at it, his emotions were complicated, but he was relieved, and he was troubled by the delay in the military plan due to the earthquake, and Huo Guangzuo, who was in a crisis in power, said:

"General, Son of Heaven...... I've made a sin! ”

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PS: Chapter 2 in the evening.